Main content start
News
Image caption:
A record 59 Stanford students and alumni athletes competed in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Stanford Economics was represented by three Olympians and produced one medal: Ben Hallock '20 (USA Men's Water Polo, bronze medal) Alberto Mestre '21
Image caption:
Photo "Teaching" by Nick Youngson
Advanced Lecturers Christopher Makler received the 2024 Economics Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and Scott McKeon received the 2023-2024 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching Award.
Image caption:
Photo by Jennie Bernheim
The University of Zurich awarded B. Douglas Bernheim an honorary doctorate. Bernheim gave a public lecture for the special occasion.
Image caption:
Photo by Steve Castillo
Muriel Niederle was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 for the excellence of her work in behavioral and experimental economics.
Image caption:
Photo by Harrison Truong/Stanford University
Neale Mahoney will begin his term as SIEPR's director on January 1, 2025.
Nicholas Bloom is serving as American Economic Association's co-vice president with Ebonya Washington, a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, in 2024.
Image caption:
Photo: Courtesy of SIEPR
Professor Fuchs, pioneer of health economics, died on September 16, 2023, in his home on Stanford's campus. He highlighted the problems in the U.S. health care system and advocated for universal health care. Fuchs was the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of
Image caption:
Photo courtesy of SIEPR
Low employment rate provides the right timing for workers across industries who are frustrated by suppressed wages and loss of voice to go on strike, argues John Pencavel.
Professor Walter P. Falcon died on August 2, 2023. He was the former deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, former director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Helen Farnsworth Professor of
Image caption:
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University
In his new book co-authored, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein propose a makeover of current health care.